Word: verbalism
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...trail and in a series of recent debates, Bush has begun, slowly, to find his voice. He doesn't wait patiently for his turn to answer questions but jumps in to defend himself when one of his opponents attacks. And he is no longer too cautious to take a verbal swing at a rival, as he has proved of late by gleefully maligning McCain's economic plan of modest tax cuts and debt reduction as something only a liberal like Al Gore could love. Aides have also backed off. Rather than grilling Bush right up until air time before debates...
...almost as frightening a sight as a writer among others, especially at a book party. Paranoia fills the bloodstream. He grows certain that everyone is plotting against him, whereas no one is thinking about him at all. Unable to decide which is more humiliating, he goes for his verbal...
...beaten up and teased in school. I was called gay, even though I am not. I was attacked mercilessly on physical, verbal and emotional levels. My crimes? Scoring well on tests. Being friendly. Playing politely with children of other ages, genders, etc. I'm lucky that my years in public school didn't change me, but the other students certainly tried to do so. If they had succeeded--who knows? Maybe I would have gone the way of Harris and Klebold. The student abusers are trying to cover up their actions and shift the blame to someone else. That makes...
...months, most recently when representatives of three of the four major networks walked out of an N.A.A.C.P. "diversity hearing" on Nov. 29. (They were unhappy at being denied the microphone for hours following the testimony of Moonves, the only network top dog to show up.) But for all the verbal grenades fired, the N.A.A.C.P. campaign has sort of stumbled along. A network boycott originally planned for November was postponed, while some within the N.A.A.C.P. leadership grumbled privately that Mfume's first high-profile campaign since taking the organization's helm in 1996 was ill-conceived...
...WEST WING (NBC) Attention, networks: There is dramatic life outside precinct houses and hospital wards. Aaron Sorkin's White House series is a love story of people and their jobs that overcomes its speechifying tendencies and tics (half the action takes place as characters stalk down corridors) with verbal gunplay, public-policy triage and an appealing lack of cynicism--about, of all things, politics...